CAE aviation art competition entries on display in Dallas

Original artwork entries in the 18th annual CAE Horizons of Flight Aviation Art Exhibition and Competition are on display through April 27 at the CAE SimuFlite Training Centre in Dallas, Texas.

“Dove of War,” by Ardell Bourgeois, Best of Show winner last year.

The juried competition was first held in 1993 and is one of only two non-military aviation art competitions and exhibitions in the United States, according to CAE officials.

Awards will be presented in March.

A few of the 35 original artwork entries from this year’s competition on display at CAE SimuFlite, Dallas.

The 2010-2011 Best of Show was awarded to Ardell Bourgeois for his oil painting “Dove of War,” which depicts a Rumpler Taube (Dove) aircraft as it cruises in the light of dawn over the stalled Western Front in 1914.